The Solid State Drive or the Hard Drive? We will be comparing these two types of drives. Which would be better to use? What would be the advantages and disadvantage. We'll talk it up in this blog.
First, let's go with what the SDD has to offer against the HDD.
Durability
SSD doesn't have a mechanical parts like the HDD so it's more durable to shock or vibration. By shock and vibration, we're talking about accidental bumps and drops on your unit(If you want to test it on a "non-accidental" basis, feel free to do so and please tell me what happens. I'm also curious).
Since it's not moving, it also makes less noise(don't need to be surprised when your hard disk suddenly sounds like an engine).
Speed Performance
As we've talked in the previous blog, the processing of SSD is much faster than the HDD. It can give you much faster booting process(starting up your computer until you reach your desktop screen) so you don't have to be excited until bored because of you waiting to see your desktop background. It can also make the loading process on your application much faster.
Efficiency
Since it's smaller and the fact that it doesn't have any moving parts, it will require less power to operate right? Yes. SSD uses microchips so yeah, it needs less electric current than the moving arm of the HDD.
You might be thinking now that SSD is better in most aspects than the HDD right? More reliable, faster and power efficient. Then why is it that I haven't or rarely seen the SSD on the computer specifications that I was shopping for online? Why is it always just the HDD specification and not the SSD and why don't all computers transfer from HDD to SSD since it has better performance than those HDD?
Now, you should stay calm and know these things first. We'll now talk about the advantages(yes, of cause it still has it's advantages) of the HDD over the SSD.
Accessibility
HDD's availability surpass than that of the SSD in the market as it is the traditional computer drive being used(some of us might not even know the existence of an SSD actually) as of now. It would be much easier for a user to avail an HDD rather than an SSD.
Market Value
We talked about how the SSD overpowers the HDD in terms of performance. Well, with that great power, comes great price. SSD is about 4 times the price of the HDD in terms of memory size and that price range has actually already decreased within these past years. So for the price range of terabyte(unit of measurement used for memory capacity) HDD(equivalent to 1024 Gigabytes), then you are going to have the 256 Gigabyte SSD.
Compatibility
If you are wondering why you haven't seen the SSD specifications on your unit then the reason is that it might not be compatible with it. Most unit doesn't have compatibility with the SSD but there are some units that you can actually upgrade from HDD to SSD. There are also units that have both slots for HDD and SSD.
Capacity
You can buy an HDD for a few hundred gigabytes and even for terabytes of size but this is not the case for the SSD. Mostly, SSD's are sold in a hundred gigabytes(I said mostly, you can still find a terabyte sized but we've already said that the SSD's price is 4 times the price of an HDD) unlike the HDD that have more available units at larger memory size.
There you go, the HDD and the SSD. Both have pros and cons in each categories. Now, the decision on how you want you computer drives to be hard or solid is up to you. You have your own picks here. It will just depend on your preference and what are you planning to do with your unit. You can always research more because why not? I know it's really fast-paced but try to keep moving with technology, technology won't wait for you.
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